maloga bean

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English

Etymology

From Mayi-Thakurti malaka.

Noun

maloga bean (plural maloga beans)

  1. (Australia) The pencil yam, Vigna lanceolata.
    • 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 294:
      [T]he silent melaleuca trees and paperbark woodland, decorated for Christmas with bouquets of red mistletoe flowers and the sleepy olive vines of wild medicine and maloga beans.